ive been toxic on a med before and it was the worst feeling ever. i think it was on either tegretol or depakote, cant remember. but i couldnt walk straight, horrible headache, pupils stayed dilated, and some other scary things. i didnt have a sz though. just felt really bad overall.

my husbands level was 31 and he started taking less pills and then he had a seizure and we got his blood taken 3 days later and it was 24 he is feeling alittle better we are new to this and we just do not understand it

I hope your husband didn't just reduce his dose on his own and I hope that you have access to an epileptologist who can help him find the correct dosage and the correct medication to help him be seizure-free.

It appears that ideal blood levels - although stated to be in the 10-20 range - are different for everyone. The goal is to find the correct level for the individual. I was a babbling idiot at 15 and doing fine in the 7-9 range.

Thank you all for your help, my husband was rearend in a auto accident and every bone in his face was broke and he had bleeding of the brain and he was in Neuro I C U for 2 months this happened May 3 2007, he had just been laid off from his job and the womans car insurance doesn't even put a dent in our hospital bills and we have no health insurance so we can not just go to the Dr. when we need to, it is such a miracle that he is alive, but at the same time it is so hard because we can't go get the help he needs, so talking with you has helped us alot we now understand about the toxic level and that he can have a seizure when it is to high, he has had 2 at night when he was asleep when his level was high and his other grand mal was durning the day and his level was to low. Its just hard .